Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28

“Love makes us poor We have not eyes enough to see all that is to be seen, nor hands enough to seize the tenth of all we want.

Who acts: Love, We, hands · What happens: make, have, see, seize, want · To what, where: us, eyes, that, tenth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love, We, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct
2	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eyes	advmod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 eyes	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eyes	acl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 seen	det:predet
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 seen	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux:pass
16	to	to	PART	_	18 seen	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 seen	aux:pass
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 see	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seize	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 seize	cc
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seize	nsubj
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 seize	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 seize	mark
24	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tenth	det
26	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seize	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 tenth	nmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 all	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	Love	us	poor property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product
2	have in a quote	present	We	eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	see in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	eyes not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see in a quote	present · passive		that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	seize in a quote	to-infinitive	hands	the tenth of all	enough property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenth=Theme
6	want in a quote	present	we			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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